Welcome to Wildthing!

We’re a small outfit settled in rural Wiltshire, where the office is just a roll cast from the River Avon – my local chalkstream.

When I was growing up, small boys could spend long days on little-known streams, trying to outwit truly wild fish for the cost of a knock on a local farmer’s door. Catch and release was what we did with undersized trout and the occasional ten incher was borne home as a triumphant trophy for the dinner table – or in my case, to go into my pond where it could teach me more about the trout’s world.

Here at Wildthing, we try to recapture that spirit of adventure, exploring secret corners and catching truly wild fish. It’s not all about catching fish, yet that is the focus of what we do. It can be about sharing a glorious August dawn with oyster catchers on the beach – known to some as bass fishing; or watching a family of otters frolic along the rocks of a highland pool as the last light drains from the sky – night fishing for seatrout. The joyous sound of a springtime cuckoo and watching its stake-out of a reed bed can be a delightful interlude on a day’s mayfly fishing.

If you want to catch big fat rainbows, by the carbootful, then this is probably not the website for you. If you enjoy finding those idyllic corners of tranquillity that also hold some fabulous wild fish, then we’d love to take you fishing!